Evans: Wes And I Fighting For Derby Day Place

Jonny Evans believes he has settled well in to the first team squad and is hoping we have the upper hand against City at the weekend.

“I feel very settled among the first team squad now,” said Evans. “I also felt very much part of it last season, but it was kind of a new thing for me. Rio and Vidic are two of the top centre-backs in the world and I’m learning a lot from them. Me and Wes have both got a fight on our hands to get into the team, but I still think both of us will play a lot throughout the season.”

With derby day approaching and Rio Ferdinand still unconfirmed as fit, Evans is hoping we get a win, with the possibility of him getting to start.

“City have had a great start, but our performance at Spurs last weekend was outstanding,” he added. “The lads did brilliantly to come back from losing an early goal and also cope with being down to ten men when Scholesy got sent off. I watched from the bench and it’s one of the best performances I’ve seen from us in a long time. We all know about the big rivalry between United and City and it’s always nice to get the upper hand on them. They’ve put themselves up there now. It’s a long season but fair play to them because they’ve got off to a good start.”

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did we put a buy-back clause in Piques contract? he’s a monster for barca at the back, not the paciest but reads the game well.

@ Devilton- its all connected to his back problems so he’ll need looking after properly, but he’s at the best club in the world for that. just look at how the club managed and solved sir ryans dodgy hamstrings.

I love Wes but would have to go with Jonny at Centre back. Rio’s fitness is becoming a concern. Evans is quality though. I prefer him when he is partnered with Vidic as he is already a similar player to Rio.

Honestly speaking Evans,Brown,Vidic,Ferdinand.Evera,Rafeal and Fabio are the best back bone of MU. John Oshea has no place in the team due to his sloppyness and lack of pace.Gary N and Scholes should retire and not to be the stumbling block of the youngsters progress.Fergi please get over it.

can some1 with admin powers get that fkin daft advert for compare off please, i h8 that fat cunt, everytime i roll my mouseover he fucks about with his tash!!!!!!. looking forward to the weekend, prediction. 2-0 utd ..

manu – Do you even read peoples comments on here? Your attitude toward Scholes and Sheasy is a disgrace. You want Scholes to call it a day? Who has been our best midfielder this season aside from Fletch and who scored the winner in Turkey the other night? And change your fucking name!!

ManU….Scholesy is a legend, he’s been awesome this season and even if he hadn’t been you don’t wish him to retire and discard him like some half witt! Whilst John O’Shea is not my favourite player, he has performed in every position for our club, including keeper, with no questions asked. He has dug us out of problems when injuries have raved our team in the past, and scoring the winner at Anfield in the dying minutes of the game, season before last means he’ll always be ok in my book. And change your bleeding name you prick!

PLEASE GOD LET IT BE EVANS…PELASE PLEASE PLEASE – I DON’T WANT TO SEE WES NEAR OUR BOX…

he’s a good RB but a crap CB – absolutely crap – against arsenal he made my heart skipping a beat like 3 times – when he gave that poor pass, than he failed to tackle the player, and when he mis-judged that slow falling cross to let rvp shoot from 2 yards out